This is the third exact same thread in the last few hours.

Anyway, this hour I will pick Bob Dylan - It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding), and I'll just pull out a section since I guess it's too long to fit it all. (that's what she said)

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Advertising signs they con

You into thinking you’re the one

That can do what’s never been done

That can win what’s never been won

Meantime life outside goes on

All around you

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You lose yourself, you reappear

You suddenly find you got nothing to fear

Alone you stand with nobody near

When a trembling distant voice, unclear

Startles your sleeping ears to hear

That somebody thinks they really found you

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A question in your nerves is lit

Yet you know there is no answer fit

To satisfy, insure you not to quit

To keep it in your mind and not forget

That it is not he or she or them or it

That you belong to

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Although the masters make the rules

For the wise men and the fools

I got nothing, Ma, to live up to

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For them that must obey authority

That they do not respect in any degree

Who despise their jobs, their destinies

Speak jealously of them that are free

Cultivate their flowers to be

Nothing more than something they invest in

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While some on principles baptized

To strict party platform ties

Social clubs in drag disguise

Outsiders they can freely criticize

Tell nothing except who to idolize

And then say God bless him

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While one who sings with his tongue on fire

Gargles in the rat race choir

Bent out of shape from society’s pliers

Cares not to come up any higher

But rather get you down in the hole

That he’s in

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But I mean no harm nor put fault

On anyone that lives in a vault

But it’s alright, Ma, if I can’t please him

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Old lady judges watch people in pairs

Limited in sex, they dare

To push fake morals, insult and stare

While money doesn’t talk, it swears

Obscenity, who really cares

Propaganda, all is phony

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While them that defend what they cannot see

With a killer’s pride, security

It blows the minds most bitterly

For them that think death’s honesty

Won’t fall upon them naturally

Life sometimes must get lonely

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My eyes collide head-on with stuffed

Graveyards, false gods, I scuff

At pettiness which plays so rough

Walk upside-down inside handcuffs

Kick my legs to crash it off

Say okay, I have had enough

what else can you show me?

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And if my thought-dreams could be seen

They’d probably put my head in a guillotine

But it’s alright, Ma, it’s life, and life only

That Dylan country era is from the late 60's-early 70's, and Johnny Cash is actually on Nashville Skyline, as well as numerous legendary Nashville musicians. It's a legit great country album, but yeah, I agree it's not where I would start with Country music...but hell, if it's the road that gets you into town, one path is as good as another.

Taste is completely subjective. Your taste is only really "good" or "bad" compared to what your taste could be, not compared to anyone elses.

I do think it's possible for people's taste to come from a place of ignorace (ie. not having a great amount of knowledge about, or appreciation of, music), and I do think that leads to one being more close-minded about music, which leads to only liking certain styles or genres or specific music artists. I think, for my money, I don't really trust musical opinions that come from a place of ignorace. So if you're like "Oh, I like music, just not country, or hip hop, or jazz, or industrial"...or whatever genres you just write off because you've never actually developed an appreciation for it, I'm going to think your taste in music is tainted by those prejudices, and have less respect for your opinions as a whole.

It doesn't mean your opinions or tastes are wrong or "bad", it's just they are less refined I guess. I think it is possible to have a more or less refined palate when it comes to music, just like anything else.

It's like, I'm not a wine conniseur, but if I were one, I would like to have a well rounded palate that can appreciate and understand the various types of wine from all over the world. That's kind of how I feel about music and that is the type of musical palate I try to maintain.

I don't mean for this to sound condescending. Everyone has their thing that they are really into and know a LOT about, and I just think for some people that thing is music, and for some people it's not. It's my only thing like that. I could speak for hours on just discussing the difference in the Stones from '68 - '72 or the production in early '90s through mid '90s hip hop...or I feel like I could write a masters thesis on what changed between Radiohead's The Bends and OK Computer (I prefer the Bends btw).

If the only Dylan you've ever heard is Nashville Skyline and Pat Garret and Billy The Kid soundtrack, (maybe even John Wesley Harding), I could see thinking that Dylan is country, as those albums do all have an outright country flavor to them. Joni is pretty far from Country music though.

Kind of cheating maybe, but Singles Original Soundtrack. My fav Pumpkins song (Drown), one of my fav Pearl Jam songs (State of Love and Trust), and lots of other amazing stuff in between, like those two killer Westerberg tracks, and Nearly Lost You by Screaming Trees.

If I had to only pick one grunge album, that would be the one.

Otherwise, probably Vitalogy, Bleach, or Superunknown.

I don't think Live music is any more "hit or miss" than studio recordings are, in fact I'd argue live music does a much better job of capturing the essence and energy of a song/band than the studio ever really does, but I guess some live recordings can leave a little to be desired sonically. I just don't think you can truly appreciate a band or musician without knowing what their live performances are like, and I think most good bands are better live.

"Recently" becomes a little more spread out the older you get, but I'll say, I just got into Oasis probably 4 or 5 years ago after stumbling across this Live at Manchester show from 2005. I really didn't like Oasis when they were peaking in the '90's. It just wasn't the type of music I was into...or maybe it was, but I didn't realize it. Anyway....it's a really epic show and I think just seeing how into it the crowd is, is one of the things that won me over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ObnZiaxdRc

A couple other bands like that for me would be Nirvana and Metallica. I didn't hate either back when I was in high school or whatever, but I was more of a Pearl Jam, Jane's Addiciton, Alice in Chains kid, and Nirvana and Metallica just never really spoke to me, but I can really appreciate them a lot more now...particularly Nirvana, but some of that earlier Metallica stuff too.

I loved George Harrison's videos like "I Got My Mind Set On You", "Crackerbox Palace" and "When We Was Fab", when I was a kid. Also all those old Beatles music videos like "Penny Lane", "Strawberry Fields", "I Am The Walrus", "Hello Goodbye" and so forth are all very kid friendly...as well as the songs.